Recent teaching: ECON*4700: Advanced Mathematical Economics (F10, F11); ECON*3600: Open Economy Macroeconomics (F10); ECON*3860: International Finance (F11); Preliminary Quantitative Methods (S11).
Research News
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The St. Gallen Symposium is the world’s leading platform for dialogue on key issues in management, the entrepreneurial environment and the interfaces between business, politics and civil society.
Every year, the competition for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award offers graduate and postgraduate university students throughout the world the unique opportunity to take...
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Connect Canada is a newly developed internship program that links graduate students and Canadian companies for research placements. The opportunity is funded by Industrial Research-Development Internship (IRDI) through Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE).
This funding opportunity is open to ALL disciplines of research. This includes: natural sciences, engineering,...
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Researchers in the College of Management and Economics and the Ontario Agricultural College have received $200,000 from OMAFRA’s New Directions Research Program to study the competitiveness of Ontario’s food industry.
“Understanding competitiveness requires a mix of economics, management and public policy expertise that our team is uniquely qualified to provide...
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Berkeley, CA, July 5, 2011 — Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) is pleased to announce that Miana Plesca of the University of Guelph is the winner of this year’s Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Junior Economists for her article “The Impact of Aggregate and Sectoral Fluctuations on Training Decisions,” which was published in The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics...
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July 7: Hundreds of Scholars From Around the World Gather For The Annual ASAC Conference in Montreal
Between July 2nd and July 5th the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) held their annual conference in Montreal. Over 600 scholars around from around the world including many from the University of Guelph came to discuss the topic of “What Matters Most” within the business field. Nine distinguished scholars including Richard Pound, a previous recipient of the...
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Dr. May Aung, along with several MSc and Ph.D students presented at the Association of Marketing Theory and Practice (AMTP) conference earlier this year. The AMTP conference focuses on bringing both academic theory and real world marketing practices together. It is an international conference that invites Business Professors, Managers, and Students to share their knowledge within the...
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A group of researchers at Memorial University of Newfoundland, McMaster University and the University of Guelph conducted a study on the job satisfaction of "older workers," defined as those aged 40 and older, working in so called "dead-end jobs" in rural communities in Newfoundland, Southern Ontario and Ireland. They found those in part-time work actually had higher job...
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Being an economics professor at a party is a bit like being a doctor at a party.
People talk about the economy without any real understanding of how it works, the same way that people talk about home remedies without any real understanding of medicine.
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